Two-Sided Pendant with the Virgin and Christ Child and John the Forerunner

Unknown

1100–1300 · Serpentine · Medieval Art

Two-Sided Pendant with the Virgin and Christ Child and John the Forerunner — Unknown

Byzantine artists often designed pendant icons so that the two sides related to each other.

Artist: Unknown
Date: 1100–1300
Medium: Serpentine
Culture: Byzantine
Department: Medieval Art
Credit line: Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Bequest of Thomas Lamont, by exchange, 1981

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